Members of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s collectors groups voted last week to purchase new artworks by five artists for the museum.

The two collectors groups are MCASD’s top level donors: the International Collectors, chaired by Joan and Irwin Jacobs and Mary Anne and Irwin Pfister, requires a yearly commitment of $10,000 to the museum; the Contemporary Collectors, chaired by David Guss and Susanne Lodi, requires $5,000 annually.

A percentage of each donation is earmarked for the acquisition of new works, generally totaling approximately $200,000 each year. Each year the museum’s curators assemble a selection of works (which are now on display at MCASD in La Jolla through April 30), and the collectors vote on which to purchase.

Over the years, the collectors have been responsible for the addition of more than 100 works to the museum’s permanent collection.

This year’s winning artists are:

Zachary Drucker: Self-portraits from the “Distance is where the heart is, home is where you hang your heart” series, in collaboration with Amos Mac (#1, #5, #13, #20) and the “Relationship” series, in collaboration with Rhys Ernst (#1, #10, #23, #24, #30, #31). Drucker, who deals with issues of sexuality and gender, is currently featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and was included in the 2012 “Made in L.A.” exhibit at the Hammer Museum.

Ramiro Gomez: “No Splash (after David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash, 1967).” Gomez has an exhibition at UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center last year and was in residence at Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Center Art Center in Orange County.

Liz Larner, “ix (caesura).” Larner, a widely exhibited artist who had a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2001, is now working on wall-mounted ceramics, of which “ix (caesura)” is a prime example.

Emil Lukas: “Winter ring, Yellow flap.” Lukas works with a range of everyday materials and his art is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Trevor Paglen: “Untitled (Reaper Drone).” Paglen has work exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Tate Modern and an award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art. “Untitled” may look like a photographic study of the sky, but if you look closely at the edge of the composition, you’ll see the speck that is the drone. In instant, your perception of the scene changes.